June 21, 2007

Why the IRS is awesome and surely will do good things for our country.

I just spent the past 45 minutes on hold with the Internal Revenue Service listening to the same Mozart piece over and over and over and over again.

I have spent far too much time dealing with them (and other financial institutions) this week -- all because someone misclassified my sister's capital gains under my social security number back in 2005 (as it turns out through much investigative work), and the government wanted to charge me $4,500 in back taxes plus $450 in interest. Since I felt this year's contribution was more than enough, I obviously wanted to reconcile this little misunderstanding. So, I spent the first part of the afternoon listening to the same fruity piece of music on my headset when I should have been doing, oh, I don't know, my JOB, and just when I got on the line with someone and they took my information down and told me everything could be resolved right away, they hung up by accident. So now, I'm back on the phone again, 21.42 minutes and counting. Thank you, IRS!!!! It's been Super-Fun doing business with you!